He made me cry

Spendless

lady_noluck wrote:

I don't work with them, however I have seen the club grow and know how hard the staff work in making in great place for kids. As I said earlier, anyone in the same area as squidgy will know which gym she's talking about and will therefore form a bad opinion of the manager which ultimately would stop potential parents from enrolling their children.

It is about the standard of the gym when people are suggesting the manager needs anger management and could be a problem around children.






And that's just a few. A total witch hunt based on 1 opinion.
You don't know if he was abusive, you just know he made her cry. For all you know saying carrots could make her cry. We all have different thresholds and maybe she crys easily. I know I do at certain times of the calendar.

However it was still none of your business to report someone who is an anonymous name on the internet. You only definately found out which gym it was by mis-leading someone in a PM.

aliasojo

mickey_vino wrote:

I,m new to this board and have been reading the posts on this subject.Am i missing something,everyone is going on about the post by Lady Noluck.What about the original subject!!! Why are you sending your Daughter to a Gym have you not got the time to spend with your daughter so you are parming her off at some gym club!!What is her age!! I dont think children should be going to a gym anyway,Talk about giving them a complex about the way they look at a young age or are you just imposing your own concerns about your appearance onto your child.Stop worrying about getting a freebie at some gym buy a ball and take your child down the park.Maybe think about going to a gym yourself.Maybe i,m old fashioned but we never needed to go to a gym when i was a kid the park was always good enough and its free!!!!!!! :j :j :j :j :j :j

Well, it's reassuring to know that in the midst of of the arguing, someone manages to come along and give us all a laugh.

Thank you, mickey....and welcome to the boards.

I assume you are actually having a laugh.........aren't you???? I say that, as I find it very hard to believe that you are actually asking those questions seriously?

Do you have children yourself?

It's a well known fact that children's gyms help develop confidence, both in dealing with physical 'tasks' as well as mixing with others. My daughter attended a similar type of gym before she started school, she attends gymnastics and tae kwondo now. It's actually a huge hassle for me to take her, but she really enjoys these classes and I'm happy to make the effort as it is benefiting her.

Many toddlers are timid and need encouragement, gym classes are one way in which this can happen. Others have an abundance of energy which can be released in this type of safe, fun environment.

I find it interesting that you see fit to comment on the original poster themselves (rather than the poster's comments) when you clearly have nothing to base your remarks on.

1)Why are you sending your Daughter to a Gym have you not got the time to spend with your daughter so you are parming her off at some gym club?

This is absolutely none of your business and is completely irrelevant to the vent made in the original post.

2)What is her age?

Ditto the above.

3)I dont think children should be going to a gym anyway,Talk about giving them a complex about the way they look at a young age or are you just imposing your own concerns about your appearance onto your child.

You are of course entitled to your opinion. I query if you've actually given it any thought though? I don't really see that taking young children to a gym class to run about, exercise and have fun mixing with other kids of the same age could be seen in any way to be giving them a complex? Your comments here seem to be made more to give rise to an argument more than anything else?

4)Maybe i,m old fashioned but we never needed to go to a gym when i was a kid the park was always good enough and its free.

That's lovely. Surely you can understand freedom of choice and what one person did or did not do, does not make it right for all?

Please note everyone: my remarks here are my own personal opinions. I usually think it better not to become involved with this type of thread, but I felt I had to reply to mickey's post. At present, the thread is just about hanging onto the 'discussion' side of things although it may not be long before it develops into an argument which will tip it into the 'requires to be locked' arena. If this happens, I'm happy to have my wrists slapped along with the rest of you.

aeuerby

lady_noluck wrote:

As I said earlier, anyone in the same area as squidgy will know which gym she's talking about and will therefore form a bad opinion of the manager which ultimately would stop potential parents from enrolling their children.

And that's just a few. A total witch hunt based on 1 opinion.
You don't know if he was abusive, you just know he made her cry. For all you know saying carrots could make her cry. We all have different thresholds and maybe she crys easily. I know I do at certain times of the calendar.

First of all why have you decided that going to citizens Advice is part of a "witch hunt"? I was suggestiong that the OP goes and gets some independent advice as to what to do re: the missed lessons and the apparent breach in the gym's T & C's, not over this blokes attitude.

Secondly, people should not be abused verbally in any way shape or form in the apparent manner that this manager alledgedly did. If I lived in the area and knew they gym in question I would certainly think twice about any child of mine going to such a place, but would not refrain from joining the gym just on reading 1 opinion on the internet. I would ask around first and see if any other parent has encountered the same problem, because of course there are 2 sides to every coin.

IvanOpinion

Woo hoo another victim!

aeuerby wrote:

First of all why have you decided that going to citizens Advice is part of a "witch hunt"? I was suggestiong that the OP goes and gets some independent advice as to what to do re: the missed lessons and the apparent breach in the gym's T & C's, not over this blokes attitude.

I was probably the one that first used the phrase 'witch hunt' which is exactly what the general tone of the thread was turning into. I think at best it should be described as a 'misunderstanding' related to the gyms T&Cs. From the OP and subsequent posts it appears options were offered but none were suitable (maybe the gym met its obligations by offering alternative dates but the OP was 'demanding' her money back). Maybe if we had a copy of the fine print it might help to clear this up.

Secondly, people should not be abused verbally in any way shape or form in the apparent manner that this manager alledgedly did.

I agree but then again we don't know what tone of voice the OP used with the manager - maybe he was simply responding to the way he was being treated - we simply don't know. Different people 'discuss' things in different manners and what is 'abusive' or a 'heated argument' to one is everyday conversation to another.

If I lived in the area and knew the gym in question I would certainly think twice about any child of mine going to such a place, but would not refrain from joining the gym just on reading 1 opinion on the internet. I would ask around first and see if any other parent has encountered the same problem, because of course there are 2 sides to every coin.

Remember it was one minor, trivial incident between adults but you definitely have the right attitude.

Ivan

IvanOpinion

Anything Aliasojo can do, I can do equally well in a non-sexist and balanced way having respect for race, creed, colour, sex and age ... that song sort of loses its potency when brought up to date in this PC age

mickey_vino wrote:

I,m new to this board

Welcome

and have been reading the posts on this subject.Am i missing something

probably

,everyone is going on about the post by Lady Noluck.

some people get all the attention

What about the original subject!!!

quite often it does not matter

Why are you sending your Daughter to a Gym have you not got the time to spend with your daughter so you are parming her off at some gym club!!

A later link showed the sort of place it was. It appears to be more of an activity adventure land for children not a gym where she is pumping iron to develop muscles like Arny Schwarz... Arny Swart ... Arny Schert ... Sylvester Stallone.

What is her age!!

I think the OP said 2

I dont think children should be going to a gym anyway,Talk about giving them a complex about the way they look at a young age or are you just imposing your own concerns about your appearance onto your child.

It is not a 'gym' in the way you are thinking. At least it is better than them running around the streets nicking the petunias I have just planted (does that make me sound a bit light on the loafers?).

Stop worrying about getting a freebie at some gym buy a ball and take your child down the park.

That should impress the local flashers hiding behind the bushes

Maybe think about going to a gym yourself.

After pumping a bit of iron the OP could beat up the manager

Maybe i,m old fashioned but we never needed to go to a gym when i was a kid the park was always good enough and its free!!!!!!!

And as we get on in the years all we have to do is purchase a trench coat and wait to turn into dirty old men

Ivan

IvanOpinion

Fran wrote:

But sometimes "drama queens" get upset as we all do.

The one I am thinking off goes into fits of tears if someone opens a packet f crisps within 10 paces.

Having discussed this last night with DW she also reminded me of another of her friends who, if she told me that she had been reduced to tears I would simply say 'you probably deserved it' - she is a bit mouthy - can hardly string a multi-syllable word together without swearing between the syllables.

Ivan

aliasojo

IvanOpinion wrote:

Anything Aliasojo can do, I can do equally well .......
Ivan

elona

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Me too

Karl_Karlsson

seems to me that when people who have under a couple of hundred posts, like Mickey Vino or lady noluck they are either ignored, lambasted or told that they obviously havent thought their opinions through, while of course those with thousands of posts have mulled over their well thought out argumants.

Rex_Mundi

Did someone say something? LOL